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DNA reveals single migration to Americas, links to Indigenous Australians
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A second study, published in Nature, reveals that some Amazonians descend from forefathers more closely related to the Indigenous peoples of Australia, New Guinea and the Andaman Islands than present-day fellow Native Americans. The US and Brazilian ...
Indigenous Australians have been found to be closely related to some tribes in ...Business Insider Australia
A DNA Search for the First Americans Links Amazon Groups to Indigenous AustraliansSmithsonian
Genetic studies link indigenous peoples in the Amazon and AustralasiaPhys.Org
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A DNA Search for the First Americans Links Amazon Groups to Indigenous Australians
Smithsonian
The latest genetic analyses back up skeletal studies suggesting that some groups in the Amazon share a common ancestor with indigenous Australians and New Guineans. The find hints at the possibility that not one but two groups migrated across these ...

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A DNA Search for the First Americans Links Amazon Groups to Indigenous Australians
Smithsonian
The latest genetic analyses back up skeletal studies suggesting that some groups in the Amazon share a common ancestor with indigenous Australians and New Guineans. The find hints at the possibility that not one but two groups migrated across these ...

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Business Insider Australia
Indigenous Australians have been found to be closely related to some tribes in ...
Business Insider Australia
Some native populations from the Amazon are more closely related to indigenous Australians and New Guineans than to Eurasians, researchers have found. An analysis of genetic data, published in the journal Nature, indicates the Americas may have been ...
A DNA Search for the First Americans Links Amazon Groups to Indigenous AustraliansSmithsonian

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The Canberra Times
New Indigenous businesses open in Canberra, hope to win public service contracts
The Canberra Times
Ms Lear, the managing director of creative design company Gilimbaa​, which employs Indigenous Australians, said the federal public service's ability to be "elastic" – making contracts flexible to allow more small businesses to win work – would be the ...

The Australian (blog)
Rare items of Aboriginal cricketing history discovered
Australian Times
The discovery of the artifacts was made by Dr Gaye Sculthorpe, curator and section head of Oceania at the British Museum and curator of the BP exhibition Indigenous Australia: enduring civilisation at the British Museum showing until 2 August. While on ...
Australia's first XI left its spears and clubs behind in EnglandThe Australian (blog)
Aboriginal cricket team first Australian cricketers to travel overseas ...Western Daily Press
The visiting Aborigine cricket team who amazed Victorian crowds with bat, ball ...Daily Mail

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Shields Gazette
Aboriginal art display sparks tales of Australia
Shields Gazette
The exhibition, about the Aboriginal concept of 'Country', opened last month at Bede's World, Jarrow, as part of the Treasures of South Tyneside 2015 programme. Prints, on loan from the British Museum, created by four Australian artists, are shown ...

SBS
Aboriginal activist enters Australia without passport
SBS
In a statement to SBS, immigration said the Australian Government does not recognise the Aboriginal passport as a valid travel document. “In certain circumstances where a traveller presents at the border and is seeking to enter Australia without a bona ...

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Aboriginal activist enters Australia without passport
SBS
In a statement to SBS, immigration said the Australian Government does not recognise the Aboriginal passport as a valid travel document. “In certain circumstances where a traveller presents at the border and is seeking to enter Australia without a bona ...
This guy just got into Australia using a homemade passportBusiness Insider Australia

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Indigenous tourism in the picture - PS News
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Indigenous tourism in the picture. A new short film highlighting Aboriginal tourism experiences to domestic and international visitors has been launched by Tourism Australia. Titled Aboriginal Australia: Our Country is Waiting For You, the three-minute ...

CNET
Remote communities call for digital inclusion in outback Australia
CNET
A forum of indigenous leaders, communications groups and regional community advocates has called for greater digital inclusion across Australia, saying parts of the country are being left behind as Australia carves out its broadband future. The ...

CNET
Remote communities call for digital inclusion in outback Australia
CNET
A forum of indigenous leaders, communications groups and regional community advocates has called for greater digital inclusion across Australia, saying parts of the country are being left behind as Australia carves out its broadband future. The ...

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The Guardian (blog)
Enduring controversy: BP sponsorship ignites new row over British Museum's ...
The Guardian (blog)
Three months after opening an exhibition of treasured items from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities, it is clear just how thoroughly London's British Museum has anticipated the potential anger and emotion of Indigenous Australians.
Cairns Indigenous Art Fair a winter taste of culture | afr.comThe Australian Financial Review
Modest but realistic hope for a 2017 Referendum - Eureka StreetEureka Street (satire) (registration)

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The Guardian (blog)
Enduring controversy: BP sponsorship ignites new row over British Museum's ...
The Guardian (blog)
Even before it opened, this landmark exhibition of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artefacts was criticised over the acquisition of many of its treasures. Now protesters are focusing on the oil company sponsor and claims about its treatment of ...

The Australian (blog)
Australia's first XI left its spears and clubs behind in England | The Australian
The Australian (blog)
If England's cricketers have anything to be grateful for after losing the second Test by 405 runs, it is that their opponents are not fielding the skills of the first Australian side to tour England. In 1868 a team of Aboriginal cricketers amazed ...

Government policy on remote communities has failed
The Australian
For 40 years we have lived under the delusion Aboriginal Australia needs more government, not less. The Howard government's 2007 intervention relied on that same flawed assumption. People of good heart wanted John Howard's measures to succeed, ...

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Western Daily Press
Aboriginal cricket team first Australian cricketers to travel overseas ...
Western Daily Press
The Aboriginal cricket team became the first organised group of Australian cricketers to travel overseas. The first tour by an Australian team classed as representative would not be made until 1878. From the early 1860s onwards, cricket matches between ...

Belfast Telegraph
Bangor loyalist Gary Hall forms new paramilitary group in Australia, blames ...
Belfast Telegraph
Police in Alice Springs — one of Australia's largest Aboriginal settlements — are keeping a close watch on the AVF amid fears it is involved in racial violence. Cops have confirmed they are “monitoring the activity of anyone choosing to associate ...

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The Australian
Warwick Thornton. 'You can make bad decisions now that will have massive ...
The Australian
But he is dismissive of Tony Abbott's claim that indigenous Australians made “lifestyle choices” to live in remote communities. “The healthiest way to live is on land, on community, on country, eating bush tucker and not the crap from town,” he says ...

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The Australian
Warwick Thornton. 'You can make bad decisions now that will have massive ...
The Australian
But he is dismissive of Tony Abbott's claim that indigenous Australians made “lifestyle choices” to live in remote communities. “The healthiest way to live is on land, on community, on country, eating bush tucker and not the crap from town,” he says ...